"In a comparative fashion, [this volume] analyses reform trajectories and political destinations in an era of rapid socioeconomic restructuring, including the critical impact of the global financial crisis on welfare state futures. The book argues that the overall scope of social reform across...

Modern challenges to the welfare state and the antecedents of the Third Way / Rebecca Surender -- Welfare philosophy and the Third Way / Stuart White -- One Third Way or several? / Giuliano Bonoli and Martin Powell -- Modernizing the state : a new style of governance? / Janet Newman -- Does the...